Jellyfin: Free software media system

Post by newsclues » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 8:12 PM UTC

beeb wrote: post #269

Drybones wrote: post #262

I switched to Jellyfin from Plex cause of it being open source and having AMD/VA-API transcoding support I’ve enjoyed it a but more cause I feel like I can do more on the server end. I recently started to use Infuse on my Apple TV for it cause turns out that Swiftfin, still in development, doesn’t have a license for Dolby Audio formats. But the development cycle for Jellyfin and the clients looks healthy, unlike Plex…

Unfortunately I had a pretty bad experience with jellyfin when trying to switch from plex. Plex works for me in almost all scenarios, mobile, desktop, chromecast, what have you. And I can play multiple feeds simultaneously from my cheap Nuc server. With Jellyfin I had trouble to get video even playing without stuttering/buffering on my phone when on the same network, let alone on mobile internet. I'll probably give i…

Post by skrrtww » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 8:14 PM UTC

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #226

skrrtww wrote: post #174

Trying to move away from Plex on my Apple TV, I installed Jellyfin. Server-side, installation was painless. The Swiftfin Apple TV client, however, is basically unusable. It only allows you to connect to a server instance via unencrypted http:// , including user and password. Indexing is buggy (it seems to think I don't have any TV shows), metadata lookup seems almost nonexistent, with base filenames everywhere and no…

> It only allows you to connect to a server instance via unencrypted http:// Hmm, no, it doesn’t. No idea why you believe that. It works perfectly fine with https url. I don’t really understand the rest of your comment as indexing and metadata look ups are done by the server and not the client. Plus Swiftfin uses VLC under the hood so it shouldn’t have issue with playback. Are you using the fairly recent stable versi…

Post by atombender » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 8:20 PM UTC

urbandw311er wrote: post #290

atombender wrote: post #156

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I've used Plex for more than a decade, and I've seen it drop in quality over the years as Plex the company has pivoted towards being a streaming service. Personally, my main beef is that as a client app, the streaming service stuff has bled into the personal library UI in obnoxious ways. For example, the default "tab" is called "Recommended". This shows some kind of algorithm-based feed of stuff they think you want t…

> Why would it suggest stuff > from a library that I curate? Mostly to try and help save time, eg to suggest you could resume a couple of recently watched episodes that you haven’t finished yet. Or that you might want to watch something that was just added to the library in the last few minutes. In most cases this has proved useful to me and I’ve found it to be a timesaver.

Post by ThatMedicIsASpy » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 8:26 PM UTC

growingentropy wrote: post #296

Musky wrote: post #294

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> I am meticulous at making sure the structure and filenames are correct before dumping anything new to the library to the point where I have a complex script to process movie and tv show filenames and folders. I'm curious to know why you chose to write a custom (and complex) script yourself instead of using something like Sonarr/Radarr for this task? Does your script do something that the *arr apps are not capable o…

I hand-change every file name. Please tell me I'm an idiot and show me a better way. Lol it won't save me the hundreds of movies I've put in "Title (year).type" format, but it will save some future work.

Post by lnauta » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 8:33 PM UTC